If Only You Knew: a Tribute to Dr. Carson Beckett
By: SingingShooter
I was watching the second to last episode of season four (The Kindred part 2) one day and at the end Carson mentioned a letter he wanted to give to his mother to Samantha. So in a moment of brilliance I wrote this. Enjoy Carson Beckett fans.
Disclaimer: I don't own Stargate Atlantis
Now this is something I couldn't just send over with the other letters and video messages home. This, I don't know why, but this was something I had to do personally.
After spending a few weeks aboard the Daedalus another week in quarantine and a day and a half on a plane, I now stood in front of a charming house in Scotland preparing to ring the doorbell to the Beckett home.
I pushed the button on the side of the door and listed to the chime. I had dressed in my formal Air Force Attire and I had btied my hair back the way the General like it. I clasped a white envelope in my hand addressed to Mrs. Beckett from the son she though was dead, and who we though we lost to. We found Dr. Carson Beckett and a wrath worshipers planet, he was a clone now frozen in time in a status pod until we could find a way to make his cells regenerate again. I fidgeted with the edge of the letter as I waited for the door to open.
Finally I heard footsteps coming form inside, and a click as the dead bold on the door was unlocked and another click and a turn of the door knob.
The door opened to reveal a kindly old lady, probably in her sixties.
"Hello," she said "can I help you?"
"Hello Mrs. Beckett, I am Colonel Carter of the US Air Force, one of my marines found something she though you should have." And I handed her the letter. "She gave this to me not to long ago; she said that your son Dr. Carson Beckett had written it but…"
"He never got the chance to send it," tears welled up in her eyes as she opened and read the letter, a few tears escaped from her blue gray eyes, the same eyes her son has.
"Thank you Colonel Carter, this means the world to me,"
"Your welcome, you son was as great man."
"I know," she said sniffling a bit; she pulled a handkerchief form her pocket and blew her nose before continuing. "He could never tell me what he was doing but I always knew he was doing something great,"
"Well I am glad I was able to give this to you, good bye Mrs. Beckett,"
"Good bye," she said and she shut the door behind her, still sniffling.
Samantha started walking down the path to her car and she though to herself,
'If only you knew.'